Temple Run: Brave: Imangi’s follow-up to its mega-hit Temple Run, now with Pixar branding for its forthcoming film. It’s engaging, it’s non-stressful, it’s got the same charming 8-bit art style that TT had, and it’s FREE – and not in that annoying way where it’s technically free but you have to shell out real $$ in order to actually get anywhere. Right now, I’ve got 5 or 6 planes ferrying people and cargo along a narrow corridor in the Northeastern US (on my iPhone, at least – my iPad game is starting out in South America), and soon I’ll be buying airports in the Midwest and beyond. Instead of building an endless skyscraper, you are gradually building an airline. Pocket Planes: Nimblebit’s followup to the insanely addicting Tiny Tower arrived late last night, and I’ve become arguably even more hooked on PP than I was on TT. Here, then, is a quick rundown of what I’ll be checking out over the next few days: Likewise, there’s bound to be some downtime during this trip, so I’ll need some stuff to keep me occupied. I’m leaving tomorrow for a mini-vacation – a wedding followed by 2.5 days in Orlando – and since I’m not the best air traveler in the world (though I’ve gotten much better), I’ve been stocking up on iOS diversions to help keep my anxiety in check. (It was a free download, though, so I didn’t necessarily lose anything beyond some hard drive space.) It’s a beautiful-looking game, but it’s also very complicated, and I ended up bailing on the tutorial because our dinner had arrived, and I don’t know that I’ll get back to it. My wife has, though, and she watched over my shoulder as I tried the tutorial. Also downloaded Magic 2013 for the iPad, although I’ve never played Magic in my life.So at least my iPad is full-up with Lovecraftian goodness. I downloaded Cthulhu Saves the World last night for my iPad (though I haven’t yet had a chance to mess with it) and then I saw that Cthulhu: The Wasted Land was available for free – I’d heard some decent things about it.The Xbox and PS3 have been collecting dust, for the most part – I did rent Dirt Showdown, which was sort-of fun (although in order to do multiplayer I would’ve need to buy an online pass, which I wasn’t really inclined to do), and I also rented last year’s Vanquish solely because the guys on the Giant Bombcast were gushing over it – it didn’t do that much for me, I’m afraid.I’m not nearly as addicted to Pocket Planes as I’d thought I’d be, although it’s still a suitable distraction on the subway….(I think I’ve only died once so far, actually, and that was due to a lost internet connection.)īeyond that, there’s not a tremendous amount to report… I don’t know if it’s the new weapon, or that I restarted Act 1 at level 56 instead of level 54, but whatever it is, I’m plowing through it with great aplomb. And whaddya know, suddenly I was kicking the shit out of everything and everyone. ![]() I went to the Auction House and picked up a pretty amazing weapon, and restarted Act 1. Here’s my current Monk build (I think this is right):Īnyway, after getting bored with Normal difficulty, I decided to get back to the Monk. I may have said this before – normally, when I play any sort of RPG, I tend to pick the Barbarian/Tank character, but for whatever reason I picked a Monk in D3, and after messing with those two other classes, I still feel that for the most part I made the right choice – the Monk is quick and agile, has useful healing abilities, and has some very effective magic spells. I started up 2 new characters – a Demon Hunter (who’s now at level 12 or so) and a Barbarian (level 5 or 6), just to see the differences. I struggled mightily to finish Act 1, found that Act 2 was even harder, and decided to take a little break. After finishing the game on Nightmare with relative ease, I immediately restarted the game on Hell, and found myself dying repeatedly, constantly, by those elite molten mobs with jail/freeze abilities and those goddamned fucking arcane sentry laser beams, which are the bane of my goddamned existence. And what, ultimately, is there to say about Diablo 3, anyway? I’ve gotten to the point where I’m playing it with the sound off and Spotify on, because the act of clicking mindlessly through levels you’ve already been in a dozen times requires a different sort of aural stimulation. I haven’t felt much of an urge to write lately, and that’s mostly because I haven’t really been doing all that much, game-wise, beyond Diablo 3.
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